The point he doesn’t have to prove

“You do everything you can to prepare for the season better than you did the previous year when you were leading the points table, and you had the package to challenge for the world championship. Then you arrive and there’s nothing you can do.” Those words are Lewis Hamilton’s, but they aren’t about the Mercedes W13 and the 2022 Formula 1 rules reset. They are from 2009, when McLaren’s MP4-24 initially missed the mark under new aero regulations.

Hamilton’s struggles in 2022 have led to some to suggest that